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Mobility News Weekly - Week of March 19, 2012

by Kevin Benedict

March 22, 2012

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

For each 10 percent increase in broadband penetration there will be a 1.4 percent growth in the GDP for lower income economies. Facebook revealed that 90 percent of its users in Nigeria and South Africa access Facebook via mobile. Read Original Content

A new report from Pew Research Center says 27 percent of Americans now get their news using mobile devices, something that's helping to increase news consumption nationally, despite a continuing decline in subscribers to print publications. Read Original Content

Known instances of Android-related malware -- "virtually all" involving apps -- have jumped steadily month by month from 400 in June to 15,507 in February, according to Sunnyvale security firm Juniper Networks. Read Original Content

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The U.S. market generated $67 billion in mobile data revenues in 2011, accounting for 39 percent of the overall revenues for the country. The mobile data market grew 4 percent Q/Q and 19 percent Y/Y to reach $18.6 billion for the quarter. Read Original Content

A recent report from Appcelerator and IDC found that developers are more interested in Apple’s iOS platform than any other mobile operating system. Eighty-nine percent of respondents said they were very interested in developing for the iPhone, while 88 percent were interested in the iPad. Read Original Content

Former executives from SAP and Oracle have launched a venture-funded startup called AnyPresence, offering businesses a unique, 100 percent cloud-based platform
for building HTML5 and native iOS and Android apps without requiring the installation of any development tools or SDKs. Read Original Content

Microsoft will officially enter the largest mobile phone market in the world, China, this month with a series of high-end smartphones as well as budget devices powered by Windows Phone Tango. Read Original Content

This year will almost certainly see China overtake the U.S. to become the largest smartphone market in the world, according to research firm IDC. IDC also believes India and Brazil will be part of the top five largest global smartphone markets by 2016. Read Original Content

Sybase Unwired Platform features the Mobile Analytics Kit that provides graphical controls with data visualization and analytics capabilities for mobile devices. It offers an intuitive user interface that lets you view enterprise data. Read Original Content

According to Kantar Worldpanel, Symbian now only accounts for 2.4 percent of the UK smartphone market while the Windows Phone platform has grown from 0.5 percent last year to around 2.5 percent, barely inching ahead of Nokia’s former smartphone OS of choice. Read Original Content

Despite discontinuing sales of its Android tablets last year, Dell is not giving up on the tablet market. A senior Dell executive said the computer maker can compete in tablets, espe
cially with Microsoft's Windows 8 platform. Read Original Content

This week sees the launch of a global advertising campaign to introduce consumers to the first Xperia smartphones from Sony. The expansive brand advertising campaign emphasizes Sony's connected entertainment experiences brought to life by Xperia smartphones. Read Original Content

According to a report from Bloomberg, smartphones are not just slowing the growth of digital cameras or shaving off the edges of the low-end market. The quality and ubiquity of smartphone photography is beginning to eat away at the traditional camera market. Read Original Content

South Korean mobile handset giant Samsung Electronics Sunday said it would launch cheaper smartphones in order to cater to the wider consumer segment of the Indian market but would not compromise on the user experience. Read Original Content

SAP has released its first consumer app. Run on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, Recalls Plus lets parents keep abreast of news of potentially unsafe products. The app allows parents to create personalized lists of recalls, filtered by the products they own or use. Read Original Content